Este libro trata de las personas que se esconden tras los números y de los lugares en los que se hacen matemáticas. Va de la lucha con la precisión, de los problemas que hacen que esa lucha merezca la pena, de la tenacidad, de los...
Dieses Buch bietet eine große Vielfalt von Antworten auf die Frage, was Mathematik ist. Die Autoren präsentieren als Antwort ein Panorama, das sich aus vielen verschiedenen Antworten zusammensetzt, viele verschiedene Bereiche skizziert...
This revised and enlarged sixth edition of Proofs from THE BOOK features an entirely new chapter on Van der Waerden?s permanent conjecture, as well as additional, highly original and delightful proofs in other chapters.
Based on a graduate course at the Technische Universität, Berlin, these lectures present a wealth of material on the modern theory of convex polytopes. The straightforward exposition features many illustrations, and complete proofs for most theorems....
Questions that arose from linear programming and combinatorial optimization have been a driving force for modern polytope theory, such as the diameter questions motivated by the desire to understand the complexity of the simplex algorithm, or the need...